Thirty million yen. Two years. One signature.
Kirihara Runa has spent her whole life carrying others—her ailing mother, her younger brother's future, the quiet weight of being the responsible one. Love, romance, a life of her own? Luxuries she never had time to consider. So when a mysterious marriage contract arrives from the Shiragi Group, offering a fortune in exchange for two years as the wife of its notoriously cold-hearted young president, Runa doesn't hesitate long. It isn't a dream. It's a transaction. A way to finally give her family what they deserve.
But Shiragi Toshiya—29 years old, ruthless in business, untouchable in his own silence—is not simply a name on a contract. Behind his icy composure lies a man shaped by loss, power, and the suffocating expectations of an empire built on his father's legacy. He doesn't need a wife. He needs an arrangement no one can question.
Two strangers, bound by paper and money, begin a marriage neither of them wanted—or believed could become anything more.
As the lines between duty and desire blur, as walls built over years of loneliness begin to crack, Runa and Toshiya will discover that even the coldest heart can learn to melt… if someone is patient enough, and brave enough, to stay.
A story of quiet sacrifice, unexpected tenderness, and love that grows where no one thought it could survive.
